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injured by grasshoppers. Farmers talk of sowing wheat extensively this 
fall. 
InDIAN corN.—This crop is generally reported in fine condition, and in most 
sections is so rapidly maturing as to be in little danger from frost. In portions 
of the west, especially so in parts of Kansas and Nebraska, the drought and the 
grasshoppers have materially injured the crop; but the season since June has 
been generally favorable, and, with the unprecedented increase in the area 
planted—3,000,000 of acres, or about nine per cent.—there must be an immense 
aggregate yield of this great staple. New Hampshire reports the average con- 
dition of the crop September 1, as compared with same time last year, at 11 
tenths, (or 10 per cent. better ;) Vermont, 13-tenths; Massachusetts, 10.4; New 
Jersey, 10.5; North Carolina, 10.8; South Carolina, 12.7; Mississippi, 11.5 ; 
Louisiana, 20; Texas, 10.5; Arkansas, 11; Tennessee, 11.4; Kentucky, 12; 
Illinois, 10; Ohio, 10; Wisconsin, 12; Minnesota, 13.1; Iowa, 10.9; while 
Maine indicates a decline to 9.3 tenths; Rhode Island, 9.6; New York, 9.9; 
Pennsylvania, 9.8; Delaware, 8; Maryland, 9.8; Virginia, 9.6; Georgia, 8.8; 
Florida, 8.5; Alabama, 8.5; West Virginia, 9.4; Missouri, 9; Indiana, 9.8; 
Michigan 9.2; Nebraska, 7; and Kansas, 5.8. 
A few extracts, indicative of the promise in the localities named, are given: 
Kosciusko county, Indiana —Siuce the rain, corn has come out beyond all 
expectation ; with a favorable fall it will be a full average crop, though it is 
quite late. 
Kankakee county, Illinois —We never had so good a prospect for a very large 
crop of corn as at present—some out of the way of frost; all will be by the 15th 
September, with good weather. 
Athens county, Ohio—The corn prospects have heen cut short by the grass- 
hoppers, especially in the low-lands; they have done immense damage, and are still 
operating. In some parts of our county hill-lands have suffered by drought. 
Allen county, Ohio.—Excessive dry weather in July and August has put the 
corn crop back. 
Harrison county, Iowa.—The corn crop is very promising, although some of 
it was planted late. The uncommonly hot summer has brought it on very 
rapidly, and if there is a favorable fall there will be more corn than ever before. 
Clarke county, Iowa.—Corn better than ever known before. 
Pawnee county, Nebraska—Corn injured by chinch bugs, by excessive dry 
weather, and by grasshoppers. These pests stopped only a few days with us, 
but they took the blades of corn and a part of the ears, leaving us a shorter crop 
than that of 1860. 
Franklin county, Kansas.—The corn crop is not as favorable as was expected 
about July. We have had a season of showers. In some localities corn is 
good. Late corn has suffered. 
Russell county, Kentucky—The weather has been very favorable to the 
growth of corn, and, although our prospect for a crop in May and June was dis- 
couraging, the crop has come forward rapidly, and should the season continue 
favorable we will make 20 per cent. more corn than last year. 
Greene county, Tennessee-—Our corn crop promised but little at the end of 
the great drought, but the rains have brought it wp wonderfully, except on poor 
land. 
Burke county, North Carolina.—Our farmers say the prospect for a big crop 
of corn was never better. 
King William county, Virginia.—Appearances indicate a good crop of corn. 
The early corn sufiered by the dry weather which prevailed about four weeks, 
but the chief portion of the crop was late, and the rains were in time to relieve 
it from suficiing severely. 
